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TOKYO: Sony has a new message for Nintendo Wii gamers: Come join us. The Japanese maker of the PlayStation 3 unveiled Thursday its highly anticipated motion controlling system, as it takes aim at Nintendo's dominance in the gaming sector. With the "PlayStation Move," Sony hopes to lure gamers who have outgrown Nintendo, which launched the Wii in 2006 and became the first to introduce motion-detecting controllers. Peter Dille, senior vice president of marketing for Sony Computer Entertainment, credited Nintendo Co. for "introducing motion gaming to the masses.

NEW YORK: Software giant Microsoft Corp has reported a 30 per cent surge in net income to USD 5.87 billion in the three months period ending June 30, 2011 helped by strong sales of its Office software and Xbox game console. The entity had a net income of USD 4.52 billion in the April-June period of 2010, Microsoft said in a statement. Microsoft's quarterly profit rises on strong results of its' server and tools unit, Office software as well as the entertainment and devices unit that includes the company's game console.

KOLKATA: Gaming may have been a male bastion, but women are making swift inroads. Gaming companies claim women gamers have evolved as a thriving segment in India, accounting for nearly 20% of the total market and could potentially double in the next three years. Women are initially getting glued to internet games in social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace, which, in turn, is triggering growth of console and mobile gaming. 'Small wonder' biggies like Microsoft, Sony and ADAG's Zapak are fine-tuning their business strategies to tap the growing base of women gamers in India.

It sounds like a tough sell: a game that involves catapulting birds at elaborate fortresses constructed by evil pigs. But " Angry Birds ," a hit game by Rovio, a small Finnish company, is one of the unlikeliest pop-culture crazes of the year - and perhaps the first to make the leap from cell phone screens to the mainstream. "Angry Birds," in which the birds seek revenge on the eggstealing pigs, is meant to be easily played in the checkout line and during other short windows of downtime - but some players have trouble stopping.

NEW YORK: Microsoft is developing a music and video device to compete with Apple's iPod and creating its own music service to rival Apple's iTunes, sources familiar with the plans said. Robbie Bach, a rising star at Microsoft who headed development of the Xbox video game business, is overseeing the project, a source said. The firm has held licensing discussions with the music industry and is already demonstrating the entertainment device, sources said. Microsoft declined to comment.

NEW YORK: Microsoft is developing a music and video device to compete with Apple's iPod and creating its own music service to rival Apple's iTunes, sources familiar with the plans said. Robbie Bach, a rising star at Microsoft who headed development of the Xbox video game business, is overseeing the project, a source said. The firm has held licensing discussions with the music industry and is already demonstrating the entertainment device, sources said. Microsoft declined to comment.

WASHINGTON: Microsoft, which has made billions of dollars selling packaged software, has opened its first online store in the United States offering its ubiquitous programmes for downloading. In a possible death knell for the practice of selling software on computer discs which buyers install on their machines, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant has opened a Microsoft Store on the Internet. The online store, which also offers hardware such as Xbox 360 consoles and Zune MP3 music players, launched on Thursday with no more fanfare than an announcement in a blog posting by a senior programme manager, Trevin Chow.

KOLKATA: It's that time of the year again. Couriers are scurrying between offices delivering thousands of corporate gifts bearing company logos. What is, however, different this year is the gusto with which it is being done. Courtesy, the rising sensex, mega scale M&As and the booming economy — all seem to have culminated in lending an extra zing to the corporate gifts binge during the year-end. ET spoke to a cross-section of corporates and retailers, all of whom claimed that traditional gifts such as diaries, organisers or crystalware are becoming passe.

SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp said its fiscal first-quarter profit rose 23 per cent as brisk sales of the new "Halo 3" video game, Windows and Office helped the software maker breeze past Wall Street's expectations. Investors cheered, sending shares up from $31.99 to $35.16, about 10 per cent, in after-hours electronic trading. For the quarter ended September 30, the software maker's profit climbed to $4.29 billion, or 45 cents per share, from $3.48 billion, or 35 cents per share, during the same period last year.

Our world of fantasy has always been fuelled by the characters of Marvel comics and the fighters from Capcom. So when both of them teamed up to give us crossover fighting game, our imagination simply went into overdrive. Next year, by mid-February you can expect the release of Marvel versus Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds. Created for Xbox 360 and PS3, it will see evil from both the world's unite to break through world order. Get set to fight and save your universe. Remember Sev, the Special Forces operative from Killzone 2?